what about cassian for the character meme?
I got, uh, multiple requests, but you’re the lucky winner :P
general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life
hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would bang
hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff
Maybe one of the most unambiguous Gryffindors in anything, ever?? He’s all about conviction and action, and explicitly and repeatedly describes his essential motivation as fighting for a noble cause.
best quality: He’s profoundly self-sacrificial, but not for its own sake. As a child, he flung himself into pursuing his dream for a better galaxy, and no matter how horrific or traumatizing, his dedication to that cause and that hope never falters. It’s not that he has any desire to punish himself or die; he treats what he’s done as a real and terrible sacrifice on his part, he quickly tumbles into love with Jyn and turns smiling and hopeful about it, he does his best to maximize chances of survival. He just believes in the cause that much.
worst quality: He’s relentless, with others and himself, so fixated on the abstract cause that he can disregard the feelings and lives of actual people. His establishing moment is murdering one of his own people, and while he’s not happy about his assassination mission, he readily cooperates with deceiving and exploiting Jyn. He’s outright indignant at her anger over it and never expresses any kind of repentance.
brotp them with: Kay! I think it’s important that Cassian persistently treats him as a personal friend.
needs to stay away from: the Death Star. And probably would be better off in a different line of work. People will get used to anything, generally; the fact that he hasn’t after twenty years speaks volumes. He’s fine in battle, too; it’s specifically spying that fucks him up. Pretty sure the Rebellion needed spies more than combat leadership pre-Yavin, but IMO Cassian himself would be much better off in a more straightforward role.
misc. thoughts: I’m so glad that he survived the war and was able to process his trauma and establish the space ACLU while happily married to Jyn.